Hyper Island is coming to our island

The Communications Council today announced it is bringing a leading international institute for digital education, Hyper Island, to Australia to host a series of master classes in Sydney and Melbourne.

Founded in Sweden, Hyper Island has been dubbed the ‘interactive equivalent of Oxbridge’, with 90 per cent of students receiving job offers from top agencies before they graduate.

Hyper Island students have been known to be recruited by companies such as Apple, Droga5, Google, IDEO, Pixar and Goodby Silverstein & Partners, while its master classes attract top level executives from companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, EURO RSCG and Ogilvy.

“We are tremendously excited to be bringing this digital institution to Australia, especially as it is the first time Hyper Island has offered its master classes in the Asia Pacific region," says Daniel Leesong, CEO of The Communications Council.

"Through Hyper Island, Australian communications professionals will gain exposure to an entirely unique learning methodology, which centres around team effectiveness, global digital trends and group leadership skills."

Since 1995, Hyper Island has trained around 1,100 graduates in Stockholm and in an old naval prison in small town Karlskrona, Sweden while also developing tailor-made master classes for creative professionals in Europe and the United States, now with offices in New York, London and Manchester.

Hyper Island’s master classes are aimed at executives, project managers, account managers, creatives and strategists and focus on enhancing efficiency within organisations and using interactive communications as a tool for ensuring high growth and long-term success.

Classes are developed in close collaboration with top agencies and brands around the world, and are partly inspired by leadership tactics employed by the Swedish military.

The master classes in Sydney and Melbourne will be tailored specifically for marketing, advertising and media professionals across creative businesses.

“We have developed our learning method, totally focused on digital communication, for more than 15 years. And it is global. Our success in the UK and US clearly shows that. We are now extremely happy to be able to offer the industry in Australia the opportunity to take their businesses to the next level through the unique Hyper Island training," says Mattias Hansson, CEO of Hyper.

The Communications Council’s three-day Hyper Island Master Class take place in Sydney 17-19 September and in Melbourne 24-26 September.

www.communicationscouncil.org.au